Sorry for top posting. Yes this is correct and AOL will be starting to evaluate SPF records possibly by the end of this month. Some sites in Europe are already making decisions based on SPF records as well (jumping the gun a bit, but it's their network).
And Remember Microsoft will be looking at Sender ID records (the combination of the SPF and Caller ID proposals), however Sender ID is fully backward compatible with SPFv1. So if you have SPF records published and working :) your in good shape. In fact some (AOL) have stated they will not change over to the Sender ID format for several reasons (some of which include (not necessarily AOL's reasons), they don't want to use XML, they are afraid of some of Microsoft's copyrights in the Sender ID proposal and while it's free now, there is nothing that forces this to continue to be free, so MS could easily turn around and start trying to charge for the use of their technology. Also the IETF is looking at this and will come to the table with a standard eventually as well. I will be visiting MS next week, maybe I can provide further information after that meeting Tory -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sent an email to the address on the DNSReport web page. I got this response: [quote} I heard it from a Microsoft representative that is working on the Sender-ID/SPF project, and a few other people. I do know that Microsoft is planning to enforce SPF records on Hotmail starting on October 1 (see http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/07/22/HNmicrosoftid_1.html and http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117026,00.asp ). -Scott _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang